Word: outbreaks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...growing need for the U.S. to be able, should it choose, to bring military power to bear rapidly overseas. "In some cases," said Brown, "that might be to turn the tide of battle. In other cases -we would hope in most cases-that would be to deter the outbreak of fighting in the first place...
Credit for the savage attack, the worst outbreak of political violence in Puerto Rico in two decades, was claimed by three terrorist groups that favor Puerto Rico's independence from the U.S.: the Volunteers for the Puerto Rican Revolution, the Boricua Popular Army, and the Armed Forces of Popular Resistance. "We are not playing at war," they declared in a note left in a telephone booth. "We are prepared to take this struggle to its ultimate consequences." The murders, they said, were in retaliation for a police ambush that killed two young leftists in July...
Since the Federal Reserve action, the prime interest rate paid by top corporations has jumped another 2% beyond its previously record heights to reach 15½%, and bankers believe that it may go still higher. Interest rates on Government bonds have leaped above levels prevailing at the outbreak of the Civil War, when Confederate forces were encamped at Manassas, ready to march on Washington. The Dow Jones index of industrial stocks since early October has slumped nearly 100 points and closed last week...
...Bloc, the largest of El Salvador's leftist movements, denounced the new junta as merely a "change of face" and planned a mass demonstration in San Salvador. While giving permission for the demonstration, the new junta warned that it would use force, if necessary, to prevent a new outbreak of street fighting. Declared Ungo...
...night. The Seoul government denied student claims that five demonstrators had been killed, but admitted that six, along with 73 policemen, had been injured. Six police cars and 21 sentry boxes were destroyed. The eight-hour rampage, which followed several other clashes the night before, was the most serious outbreak of rioting in South Korea since the student rebellion that overthrew President Syngman Rhee...